Leaving aside the question of what exactly is the difference between 'speaking up' and 'speaking out' - further proof if it were needed of the detrimental impact of a massive wave of editorial layoffs at the magazine - we can all agree that a number of the journalists highlighted on the four different covers of the latest issue fall into the 'for good' category.
By any objective measure, murdered Saudi political dissident and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi should have fallen into the 'for ill' side of the equation.
His career as a journalist, such as it was, was anything but praiseworthy.
Khashoggi's death, TIME tells us, 'laid bare the true nature of a smiling prince, the utter absence of morality in the Saudi-US alliance and - in the cascade of news feeds and alerts, posts and shares and links - the centrality of the question Khashoggi was killed over: Whom do you trust to tell the story?' Let's remember that before he fled to the US a year before he was cruelly murdered in Istanbul, Khashoggi became rich working for a Saudi royal family that was, and remains, among the world's worst persecutors of journalists.
He edited government-controlled Saudi newspapers, which are without exception regime propaganda outlets, and headed TV news channels that were owned by Saudi princes.
His columns for the Post were a plea for the Saudi crown prince to embrace the political Islam espoused by the Muslim Brotherhood, an organization hardly known wherever it spreads its poisonous tentacles for its love of freedom of expression.
His inclusion as a martyr for truth telling is an insult to the others, because he was the very last 'journalist' anyone should ever have trusted on whatever subject you care to mention.
https://spectator.us/jamal-khashoggi-time-person-year/
By any objective measure, murdered Saudi political dissident and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi should have fallen into the 'for ill' side of the equation.
His career as a journalist, such as it was, was anything but praiseworthy.
Khashoggi's death, TIME tells us, 'laid bare the true nature of a smiling prince, the utter absence of morality in the Saudi-US alliance and - in the cascade of news feeds and alerts, posts and shares and links - the centrality of the question Khashoggi was killed over: Whom do you trust to tell the story?' Let's remember that before he fled to the US a year before he was cruelly murdered in Istanbul, Khashoggi became rich working for a Saudi royal family that was, and remains, among the world's worst persecutors of journalists.
He edited government-controlled Saudi newspapers, which are without exception regime propaganda outlets, and headed TV news channels that were owned by Saudi princes.
His columns for the Post were a plea for the Saudi crown prince to embrace the political Islam espoused by the Muslim Brotherhood, an organization hardly known wherever it spreads its poisonous tentacles for its love of freedom of expression.
His inclusion as a martyr for truth telling is an insult to the others, because he was the very last 'journalist' anyone should ever have trusted on whatever subject you care to mention.
https://spectator.us/jamal-khashoggi-time-person-year/
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